“Honor Killing” is Absolutely Islamic!

Honor
killings, which occur with shocking regularity in certain parts of
the Middle East and South Asia, target women whose actions – actual
or suspected – violate the honor of their family, an honor which is
thought to depend on the sexual purity of its female members.
Victims are always being killed/slaughtered mercilessly by her own
family members. Honor killing is a manifestation of global
phenomenon in general and Muslim nations in particular. Since this
terrible inhumane practice does exists only among the Muslims of the
world—very often civilized people do blame Islam as the precursor of
this dreadful act. Most others do not agree with this notion at all;
and they try to put the blame on the tribal/cultural practice, and
do not consider Islam is anyway responsible for it. In this essay I
shall analyze the real issues, cause and origin, and pattern of this
heinous act amongst the Muslims of the world to postulate if there
is any link, or incitements that originates from the very core of
Islam.

What is honor killing?

Honor killing is the bone chilling horrific cruelty committed by the
family members—father, mother, brothers, brother-in-laws, even in
some cases own sisters also. In this terrible episode the victim is
always the daughter/sister or other blood related young women who
get killed. Perpetrators are always the family members stated above.
Family honor is one of the core values of Arab society. Anything
from speaking with an unrelated man, to rumored pre-marital loss of
virginity, to an extra-marital affair, refuses forced marriages;
marry according to their will; or even women and girls who have been
raped—can stain or destroy the family honor. Therefore, family
members (parents, brothers, or sisters) kill the victim in order to
remove the stain or maintain, and protect the honor of the family.
Killers are given light sentences, sometimes with little or no jail
time at all. The killers mainly defend their act of murder by
referring to the Koran and Islam. Family guardian will say that they
are merely following the directives set down in their Islamic
ethical beliefs.

Honor killing is committed
by the family members - father, mother, brothers,
brother-in-laws and even in some cases sisters

These barbaric killings occur only to save the honor of the
family, and not for any animosity or for wealth or gold. In 100%
of cases—the killers have no animosity, rather they love the
girl as their own daughter or sister, but they kill the girl
anyway upon their ethical compulsion to save their family honor,
or to erase family stigmas. The victims cry, beg for their life
but the family members become merciless (out of their ethical
prejudices and also religious burden of fear) and kill the
victim. After killing family members usually mourn and cry for
the victim (usually loving daughter or sister) but feel solace
that they have done the right thing to save their family honor.

And this kind of cruel killings to save family honor had
happened, still happening, and will remain to happen—only to a
Muslim family. Honor killings happen only to some designated
Muslim nations such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Yemen,
Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, the Gaza strip and the West Bank
(Palestine), Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria,
Somalia, Turkey, Iran and some other south and central Asian
countries. Bangladesh though a Muslim majority country—regular
pattern of honor killings never happened as of today. But it is
not unknown or impossible to record some stray incidences in
Bangladeshi rural Muslim family (only) in which girl was
poisoned by family members, or asked to commit suicide after
being impregnated by unwed sexual intercourse. However, this
same kind of case history was never heard, or recorded in the
non-Muslim family of Bangladesh.

Honor killing is different from other killings

Honor killing should never be confused with wife beating, or wife
killings by husbands or other relatives. Since pre-historic ancient
time people assassinated, killed, or poisoned their wives or
husbands, or other family members for either adultery, love affairs
(Poro-keya prem) with other man besides her husband, or for property
disputes—and these are simple homicide in English terminology. They
are never called honor killing. This kind of homicides did occur,
still occurs, and will occur in any nations, or race throughout the
human history and these are not any race, or religion related
happenings by any standard. Honor killings also should never be
confused, or mixed up with killings for dowry, acid throwing by
unsuccessful/disappointed love stalkers (as frequently happened in
the Indian sub-continent), or any other violence against women.
These are simply not honor killings, which is the topic of this
essay.

Some sample cases of horrific honor killing:

Case-1: " Two months ago, when she tried to run away yet again,
Kina (father of the girl) grabbed a kitchen knife and an ax and
stabbed and beat the girl [his daughter] until she lay dead in the
blood-smeared bathroom of the family's Istanbul apartment. He then
commanded one of his daughters-in-law to clean up the mess. When his
two sons came home from work 14 hours later, he ordered them to
dispose of the 5-foot-3 corpse, which had been wrapped in a carpet
and a blanket. The girl's head had been so mutilated, police said,
it was held together by a knotted cloth."

Case-2: "Kifaya Husayn, a 16-year-old Jordanian girl, was lashed
to a chair by her 32-year-old brother. He gave her a drink of water
and told her to recite an Islamic prayer. Then he slashed her
throat. Immediately afterward, he ran out into the street, waving
the bloody knife and crying, 'I have killed my sister to cleanse my
honor.' Kifaya's crime? She was raped by another brother, a
21-year-old man. Her judge and jury? Her own uncles, who convinced
her eldest brother that Kifaya was too much of a disgrace to the
family's honor to be allowed to live. The murderer was sentenced to
fifteen years, but the sentence was subsequently reduced to seven
and a half years, an extremely severe penalty by Jordanian
standards."

Case-3: “A 25-year-old Palestinian who hanged his sister with a
rope: "I did not kill her, but rather helped her to commit suicide
and to carry out the death penalty she sentenced herself to. I did
it to wash with her blood the family honor that was violated because
of her and in response to the will of society that would not have
had any mercy on me if I didn't . . . Society taught us from
childhood that blood is the only solution to wash the honor."

Case-4: "Samia Sarwar, 29, mother of two boys aged 4 and 8, was
shot dead today in lawyer Hina Jillani's office by a bearded man
accompanying her mother and uncle. `He's my helper, I can't walk,'
said the mother, when Hina told the two men to get out. As the
mother went to sit down in front of Hina's desk, and Saima stood up
from her chair, the bearded man whipped out a pistol from his
waistcoat and shot Saima in the head, killing her instantly."

When Samia Sarwar sought a divorce from her
violent husband she was gunned down in the office of her lawyer Hina
Jilani. The killer was taken there by her own mother.

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Case-5:
ABU QASH, Palestine: Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud (mother of 9 children)
killed her daughter ‘Rofayda Qaoud’ who had been raped by her
brothers and was impregnated. Armed with a plastic bag, razor and
wooden stick, Qaoud entered her sleeping daughter's room last Jan.
27, 2003. "Tonight you die, Rofayda," she told the girl, before
wrapping the bag tightly around her head. Next, Qaoud sliced
Rofayda's wrists, ignoring her muffled pleas of "No, mother, no!"
After her daughter went limp, Qaoud struck her in the head with the
stick. The 43-year-old mother of nine said. "I had to protect my
children. This is the only way I could protect my family's honor."

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Case-6: A 23 year old Rania Arafat, whose plight was broadcast live
on national TV in Jordan. Rania was promised to her cousin as a very
young child. Rania repeatedly told that she doesn't love him and she
is in love with someone else. She pled with her family to allow her
to marry her lover, instead. She ran away twice, including two weeks
before her forced marriage. She wrote to her mother and pled for
forgiveness and understanding. Her parents promised that she would
not be harmed and she could return home. On August 19, 1997, Rania
returned home. The same night, her younger brother, Rami, shot her
five times in the head and chest, killing her immediately. Her
youngest brother was chosen to commit the murder not only to allow
his defense to find protection under the laws protecting so-called
honour crimes, but also because he was a juvenile. Rami served six
months in jail for his crime.

Case-7: Amal, another Arab woman and victim of honour killing
was run away because she insisted on her independence. Her family
said that they were ashamed because of that and the gossip of
neighbors. One night, when she returned home and went sleep, her
brother accompanied by Amal's father, strangled her. He said: "I
strangled her. She didn't fight back. I recited the "Holly Koran" as
she was dying… it took a few minutes and she was dead." He and his
father both given light sentences.

Every two weeks a young woman is killed in
Jordan alone in the name of family honour

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Case-8: Death of Aqsa Pervez: A reflection on Canadian
Muslim-Pakistanis-Honor killing in Canada!, December 16, 2007
A young Mississauga teenager (16-year old) Aqsa Pervez, was killed
by her father last week who later called the police and confessed.
Mohammad Pervez is now in police custody and his case hearings have
begun. The young girl was killed by strangulation for her refusal to
wear the hijab.

Case- 9: Texas manhunt on for father of slain his two girls
(January 3, 2008)
Texas authorities continued a manhunt today for an Egyptian-born
taxi driver accused of murdering his two teenage daughters. Yaser
Abdel Said, 50, was wanted on a warrant for capital murder after
police say he shot the girls Tuesday and left them to die in his
taxi, which was found parked in front a hotel in Las Colinas, a
suburb north of Dallas. Police said Mr. Said should be considered
armed and dangerous.

Friends of Amina Yaser Said, 18, and Sarah Yaser Said, 17, described
the girls to the Dallas Morning News as "extremely smart — like
geniuses," saying the slain sisters had been enrolled in advanced
placement classes and were active in soccer and tennis at suburban
Lewisville High School. Family and friends told reporters that the
girls' Westernized lifestyle caused conflict with their Muslim
father, who immigrated from Egypt in the 1980s.

"He was really strict about guy relationships and talking to guys,
as well as the things she wears," Kathleen Wong, a friend of the
girls, told KTVT-TV, the Dallas CBS affiliate. Two boys who said
they had been dating the sisters told KXAS-TV in Dallas that Mr.
Said was upset that his daughters were involved with non-Muslims.

"She just wanted a normal life, like any American girl wanted," one
of the boys told the NBC affiliate station, adding that Sarah "was
always kind, gentle, always cheerful, always had a smile on her
face."

Amina and Sarah Said are dead but .... family
honour intact

Honor killing is a cultural/tribal phenomenon!!!

Most Muslim apologists and also some gullible westerners want to
argue that the ‘so called “honor killing” is not Islamic and it’s a
tribal/cultural vice.’ This statement is utterly untrue and only a
wish full covers up. It’s true that in pre-Islamic Arab culture this
heinous honor killing of women did exist; likewise, many other
uncivilized practices like stoning, flogging, beheading, slavery etc
also existed in the pre-Islamic Arab society. But Islam did
incorporate entirely most of these inhumane/uncivilized practices of
pagan society, which they now call them Allah’s laws.

Had it been the tribal/cultural practice, ‘honor killing’ would
exist amongst the Arabs only. But honor killing does happen amongst
the non-Arab Muslims also. Also Arabs belonged to all religions
(Muslims, Christians, Jews, Bhai etc.) would practice honor killing
with equal prevalence. Fact of the matter is—no Arab Christians,
Jews or Bahai etc do practice this uncivilized act at all. Only Arab
Muslims do practice this heinous act with a regular pattern.

Honor killing does happen only amongst the Muslims and these
honor killings get support and encouragement from the ethical
teachings of religion Islam. In 1986 this kind of honor killing
did happen in the United States of America in an Arab Muslim family.
In 2003 honor killing happened in Sweden again in a Muslim family.
However, some very rare, sporadic case of such killing might have
happened in other society or people of other religion. But they are
no where near to compare with the regular pattern, or routine
feature of honor killings which do happen in the Muslim nations that
I have mentioned. It has been reported that in Pakistan and in
Jordan several hundreds of “honor killings” do happen every year.
Perhaps, it will be more plausible to name this so called ‘honor’ as
the “Islamic honor”, which Muslims stupendously try to save by
killing their love one!

Dictums of Quran and Hadiths which may
dictate/incite honor killing:

Quran- 4:15 “If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the
evidence of four (reliable) witness from amongst you against them;
if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them.
Or God ordain for them some (other) way.”

Quran-24:2 “The woman and the man guilty of adultery or
fornication—flog each of them with hundred stripes: Let no
compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by God, if
ye believe in God and the last day.”

Quran-17:32 “ Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is a shameful (deed)
and an evil, opening the road (to other evils).

Quran-33:33 “stay quietly in your houses, and make not a dazzling
display.”

Now some sahih hadiths:

Bukhari: Volume 7, Book 63, Number 196:
Narrated Abu Huraira: A man from Bani Aslam came to Allah's Apostle
while he was in the mosque and called (the Prophet ) saying, "O
Allah's Apostle! I have committed illegal sexual intercourse." On
that the Prophet turned his face from him to the other side,
whereupon the man moved to the side towards which the Prophet had
turned his face, and said, "O Allah's Apostle! I have committed
illegal sexual intercourse." The Prophet turned his face (from him)
to the other side whereupon the man moved to the side towards which
the Prophet had turned his face, and repeated his statement. The
Prophet turned his face (from him) to the other side again. The man
moved again (and repeated his statement) for the fourth time. So
when the man had given witness four times against himself, the
Prophet called him and said, "Are you insane?" He replied, "No." The
Prophet then said (to his companions), "Go and stone him to death."
The man was a married one. Jabir bin 'Abdullah Al-Ansari said: I was
one of those who stoned him. We stoned him at the Musalla ('Id
praying place) in Medina. When the stones hit him with their sharp
edges, he fled, but we caught him at Al-Harra and stoned him till he
died.
(See also Bukhari: Volume 7, Book 63, Number 195.)

Sahi Bukhari: 8:6814:
Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah al-Ansari: “A man from the tribe of Bani
Aslam came to Allah’s Messenger [Muhammad] and informed him that he
had committed illegal sexual intercourse; and he bore witness four
times against himself. Allah’s Messenger ordered him to be stoned to
death as he was a married person.”

Sahi Muslim No. 4206:
“A woman came to the prophet and asked for purification by seeking
punishment. He told her to go away and seek God’s forgiveness. She
persisted four times and admitted she was pregnant. He told her to
wait until she had given birth. Then he said that the Muslim
community should wait until she had weaned her child. When the day
arrived for the child to take solid food, Muhammad handed the child
over to the community. And when he had given command over her and
she was put in a hole up to her breast, he ordered the people to
stone her. Khalid b. al-Walid came forward with a stone which he
threw at her head, and when the blood spurted on her face he cursed
her.”

Sahih Al-Bukhari Vol 2. pg 1009; and Sahih Muslim Vol 2. pg 65:
Hadhrat Abdullah ibne Abbaas (Radiallahu Anhu) narrates the lecture
that Hadhrat Umar (Radiallaahu Anhu) delivered whilst sitting on the
pulpit of Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wa Sallam). Hadhrat Umar (Radiallahu
Anhu) said, "Verily, Allah sent Muhammad (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wa
Sallam) with the truth, and revealed the Quran upon him. The verse
regarding the stoning of the adulterer/ess was from amongst the
verse revealed (in the Quraan). We read it, secured it and
understood it. Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) stoned and
we stoned after him. I fear that with the passage of time a person
might say, ‘We do not find mention of stoning in the Book of Allah
and thereby go astray by leaving out an obligation revealed by
Allah. Verily, the stoning of a adulterer/ress is found in the
Quraan and is the truth, if the witnesses are met or there is a
pregnancy or confession."

Al-Bukhari:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Whoever
guarantees me that he will guard his chastity, I will guarantee him
Paradise”.

Al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, An-Nisa’i and others:
Abu Hurayrah reports that the Messenger of Allah said, “No one
commits adultery while still remaining a believer, for faith is more
precious unto Allah than such an evil act!” In another version, it
is stated, “When a person commits adultery he casts away from his
neck the bond that ties him to Islam; if, however, he repents, Allah
will accept his repentance”.

Al-Bayhaqi:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “O mankind!
Beware of fornication/adultery for it entails six dire consequences:
three of them relating to this world and three to the next world. As
for the three that are related to this world, they are the
following: it removes the glow of one’s face, brings poverty, and
reduces the life-span. As for its dire consequences in the next
world they are: it brings down the wrath of Allah upon the person,
subjects him to terrible reckoning, and finally casts him in
hell-fire.”

The above Quranic verses and authentic sahih hadiths clearly
demonstrate beyond doubt that Prophet Muhammad, under Allah’s
direction, stoned adulterers to death and flogged fornicators.
Allah’s decree/choice of death for fornicators (Quran: 4:15) and
flogging adulteress 100 times with no mercy (Quran: 24:2, which also
could lead to certain death) has clearly sanctioned/dictated
dreadful punishment for sexual intercourse outside marriage. It is
from these scriptural divine spirits Iranian fundamentalist Islamic
government practices stoning and flogging adulterers even today. The
Iranian Supreme Court sanctioned that an adulteress should be buried
up to her chest and stoned to death. Mullahs of Iran know the
hadiths quite well. This august body is closely following Allah’s
prophet. It is also quite prudent to consider that Muslim parents
those who are practicing honor killing are directly motivated, or
influenced by the above scriptural and historical (Hadiths) support;
hence they are able to commit heinous crime called ‘honor killing’
with (almost) impunity, exultantly and with ample satisfaction that
they are following the strict Islamic ethical code to guard
chastity, as the holy Prophet repeatedly cautioned Muslims so
seriously to guard their women’s chastity.

Islamic ethics for adultery:

The Arabic word ‘Zina’ means all extramarital sexual intercourse
between a man and a woman. According to Islam “Zina” constituted
social suicide—an entire society commits suicide over time if it
allows fornication and adultery to go unpunished in the Islamic
style. As per Islamic justice—unmarried fornicators receive a
hundred stripes, but married adulterers must die by stoning, as
described in the sahih hadiths.

Opinion of some famous Islamists about Zina

The
Saudi Ambassador to London, Ghazi al-Qusaibi, says that stoning may
seem irrational to the western mind, but it is "at the core of the
Islamic faith." An intellectual, the Saudi ambassador to London
asserted that stoning adulterers to death is a legitimate punishment
for society. He also says that Westerners should respect Muslin
culture on this matter.

Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and Islamic scholar at the
Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states: “Adultery in Islam is one of the most heinous and deadliest of
sins. Its enormity can be gauged from the fact that it has often
been conjoined in the Qur’an with the gravest of all sins: shirk or
associating partners with Allah.”

Hani Ramadan head of the Islamic Center in Geneva (Hani Ramadan is
the elder brother of famed Swiss Muslim intellectual Tarek Ramadan,
who are both the grandsons of Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of
Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.) stated, “Islam has taken a firm and decisive stance against Zina
(fornication or adultery). Allah, the Almighty, commands in explicit
and unequivocal words: “And come not near unto adultery. Lo! it is
an abomination and an evil way.” (Al-Isra’: 32).”

Al Skudsi bin Hookah , (roving reporter and foreign correspondent
for The Gaza Gajeera.):“I am very unhappy. Our way of life is under attack. And we are
not fighting back. Deep down, we know that when a woman has
disgraced her family, nothing will restore honor except by killing
her. This is understood in Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt, the
Gaza strip and the West Bank. So why are we Arabs telling the
Western press that honor killing is cultural, that it is not really
part of Islam? Our way of life is based on maintaining our honor.
And make no mistake about it: a woman does tarnish her family's
honor by engaging in pre-marital sex, or by getting herself raped,
when she seeks divorce and when she marries against her family's
wishes. And keeping our women pure is a big part of our honor. So
there's no point saying honor killing isn't really part of our
religion. Honor and Islam are inextricably bound; they are what give
our life meaning. A strong religion demands we choose to maintain
our honor.”

Bassam al-Hadid, (A Jordanian with an American doctorate who spent
12 years as a hospital administrator in the United States): “I
would do what I have to do,” said, when asked whether he would
kill a daughter who had sex outside marriage."

Status of Women in Muslim society:

According to Islamic tradition the woman is an object owned by the
man who assumes responsibility for her behavior and her life. The
social and religious traditions lead to the isolation of the woman
in her home. She is required to cover her entire body in order to
maintain the honor of the man. In Qur’an, prophetic tradition and
law, one finds a very strong presumption of women’s chastity along
with numerous safeguards to prevent any imputation of un-chastity A
Muslim feminist sexual ethics must help create the conditions for
the Qur’anic and traditional values of modesty and chastity to be
lived by Muslim women and men in ways that are faithfully chosen and
equitably maintained.

A woman who is either raped or commits adultery becomes the
source of shame to her family. People will not marry her because she
has been spoiled; she and her family becomes the object of gossip of
everyone in the society; hence the entire family can lose prestige.
No one would give a daughter to the brothers of that girl in
marriage and no one would marry her sisters. The family and even the
extended family are maligned and become outcasts. This can only stop
if the family cleanses that stain with blood. The woman thus defiled
must be killed even if she is a victim of rape.

Role of Misogynistic attitude in Islam:

Islam is dreadfully anti-women. This statement can be proven with
100% guarantee by the well known and established fact that—women
folks in every Muslim country in general, and in every Islamic
paradise (country where Islamic Shariaat is enforced) in particular,
are severely subjugated, oppressed, and considered less than second
class citizen. Women in Islam are considered half human and in the
Quran women have half the rights of men, sister has half the rights
of brother, and women are considered deficient in intelligence.

Practically and Literally Islam consider women as the sources of
great shame. Prophet Muhammad said women are awrah which can be
translated as object of shame. What is awrah? The Encyclopedia of
Islam defines 'awrah’as pudendum, which is the external genitals,
especially of the female. The word Pudendum derives from the Latin
pudor which means sense of shame and modesty. Therefore, awrah
signify an object of shame that needs to be covered.

Interestingly, in the Indian sub-continent
(Bangladesh-India-Pakistan)—women have another alternative name
calling, in spite of having their usual name for the English word
woman in the respective language. And this famous name calling is
“Auraat” and common in all the three countries of the Indian
sub-continent. Obviously this common word “Auraat” for women came
from the Arabic word Awrah. This common word “Auraat” is usually
used as the synonym for woman with empathy, hatred, mercy and shame.

According to the following Hadiths, women not only have ten 'awrah,
but the woman herself is perceived as 'awrah: "The woman is 'awrah.
When she goes outside (the house), the devil welcomes her" (Ihy'a 'Uloum
ed-Din by Ghazali, Dar al-Kotob al-'Elmeyah, Beirut , Vol II, Kitab
Adab al-Nikah, p. 65. Reported by Tirmizi as a true and good Ahadith).

Hazrat Ali (rightly guided Caliph) reported the Prophet saying:“Women have ten ('awrah). When she gets married, the husband
covers one, and when she dies the grave covers the ten." (
Kanz-el-'Ummal, Vol. 22, Hadith No. 858. See also Ihy'a).

In most fanatical Islamic nations when a woman loses her awrah by
e.g. through rape, she becomes the object of shame for her entire
family, and also for the society. Only way to remove that shame and
restore the honor is to remove that defiled woman. It is practiced
in most Islamic countries with a regular pattern. The more religious
is a country, the more is widespread the honor killing. As for
example, Pakistan a Muslim majority nation did not have practice of
honor killing until the fanatic and despotic Military dictator
General Ziaul Hoq came to power. This despotic ruler by his decade
long dictatorship turned Pakistan into an Islamic Sharia country.
Along with intense acceleration of making Pakistan into a hub of
Talibans, and Islamic terrorist’s country, citizens of Pakistan also
started vigorous practicing of honor killing on a regular basis.

Conclusion:

Judging everything I have described in this essay, one can very
genuinely lead to the conclusion that ‘honor killing’ is indeed the
vice of
Islam. Islam has much to do with honor killing practices which only
do exist amongst the Muslims of the world. Had it been un-Islamic
practice, we would have seen some Muslim nations prohibiting such
cruel practice by Sharia law. We have not seen any Muslim country
did enact any such law to curve honor killing. We have seen
innumerable cases of fatwas by Mullahs to prohibit alcohol drinking,
pork eating or listening western music; but never ever heard any
such fatwa against honor killing. Rather, honor killing has silent
support from the devout Islamists of all kinds. Islamists condone
honor killing silently! No wonder that the Al Skudsi bin Hookah
(reported of Gazagejeera) so passionately said: “So there's no point
saying honor killing isn't really part of our religion. Honor and
Islam are inextricably bound; they are what give our life meaning. A
strong religion demands we choose to maintain our honor.”

One may argue that Quran does not say clearly about honor killing!
Fact is there are plenty of things Muslims practice that are also
not mentioned in the Quran. Stoning death also not available in the
Quran. Yet Iranian Islamic government does practice stoning death by
the decree of Islamic court. Afghan Taliban government did routinely
practice stoning and flogging of adulterers. Most importantly, Quran
did not create any scriptural instruction to ban the so called Arab
tribal practice of “honor killing” either! Besides, if the honor
killing was simply a tribal practice—then it would have been
prevailed amongst the Arabs of all religions. There is no evidence
to support that a Christian or Jewish family of Jordan or Palestine
did practice honor killing.

Muslims who are stunningly devout and laden with Islamic
superstitious beliefs do commit crime of Honor killing to fulfill
their obligation of preserving Islamic ethics, and women chastity.
The more a country gets fanatically religious the more frequent are
honor killings (Pakistan is a perfect example). Islam has
incorporated many pre-Islamic practices of Arab pagans (stoning
deaths, flogging the fornicators, slavery, war booty, beheading the
criminals, cutting hands and foots of thieves, many rituals of
animal sacrifice, annual pilgrimage to Mecca etc.) and readily
called them Islamic or Allah’s laws. Honor killing is one such
pre-Islamic practice of Arab pagans which has been practicing by
some devout Muslim families of many good Islamic nations of the
world.

Because of the fact that the “honor killings” do have silent support
from Islam, the killers are given light sentences, sometimes with
little or no jail time at all. The killers are primarily influenced
by Islamic ethics, and mainly defend their act of murder by
referring to the Koran and Islam. They usually justify their evil
deeds by the directives set down in the Islamic ethical beliefs and
principles. Koran is very strict and belligerent regarding how to
control women's sexuality, and Islamic Law; Sharia, rules harsh
punishments including lashing and stoning to death for women's
voluntary sexual activities. And it is because of these Islamic
elements of support, no Islamic government dares to enact any
criminal law to ban this barbaric slaughtering of innocent family
girls. Even then some Islamists will still say that “honor killing”
has nothing to do with Islam; just the way they say “Islamic
terrorism” has nothing to do with the so called peaceful Islam.
Their hypocritical denial is utter nonsense and stupendously
deceptive. I urge those Islamists to tell us why this “honor
killing” never happens among the non-Muslim Arab families? They must
also tell us—why no Arab and non-Arab Muslim government dare to make
any strict law to ban honor killings in their land?

Denying the truth is tantamount to committing this heinous crime to
humanity, and denying will never solve this chronic problem of
Islamic nations. Only way honor killing can be stopped is to admit
the truth (real cause), and stop controlling public lives by the
draconian laws (Sharia) of Islam. Let there be a strict separation
of ‘Mosque and State’ in every Muslim majority nation of the world.
Honor killing will definitely cease to exist.